API Rate Limiting in Practice: Token Buckets, Sliding Windows, and Client-Side Handling
Last month, one of our payment processing services went down for 47 minutes. The root cause wasn’t a bug in…
Understanding Rate Limiting: Algorithms, Implementation, and Why Your API Needs It
Every API you expose to the internet will eventually be abused. Automated scrapers, credential stuffing bots, misbehaving integrations, and sometimes…